-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-02-04
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2008-03-27
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-version 1.19.1 (CVS)
+version 1.19.90 (CVS)
* New option --auto-compress (-a)
This action allows to specify an action to be executed upon hitting a
checkpoint. Recognized actions are: dot, echo (the default),
-echo=string, and sleep=value. Any number of `--checkpoint-action'
-options can be specified, the actions will be executed in order of
-their appearance in the command line.
+echo=string, ttyout=string, exec=cmdline, and sleep=value. Any number
+of `--checkpoint-action' options can be specified, the actions will be
+executed in order of their appearance in the command line. See
+chapter 3.8 "Checkpoints" for a complete description.
+
+* New options --no-check-device, --check-device.
+
+The `--no-check-device' option disables comparing device numbers during
+preparatory stage of an incremental dump. This allows to avoid
+creating full dumps if the device numbers change (e.g. when using an
+LVM snapshot).
+
+The `--check-device' option enables comparing device numbers. This is
+the default. This option is provided to undo the effect of the previous
+`--no-check-device' option, e.g. if it was set in TAR_OPTIONS
+environment variable.
* The --transform option.
The argument to `--transform' option can be a list of replace
expressions, separated by a semicolon (as in `sed').
+Filename transformations are applied to symbolic link targets
+during both creation and extraction. Tar 1.19 used them only
+during extraction.
+
+For a detailed description, see chapter 6.7 "Modifying File and Member
+Names".
+
* Info (end-of-volume) scripts
The value of the blocking factor is made available to info and
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